Rose Johnson
Rose Johnson
came childhood dangerous felt heart issue loss trees turkey
The more often I came home, the more trees were gone. It was like my childhood was being eviscerated. There was another OfficeMax or Wal-Mart. ?This is not my home,? I said. I felt in my heart the loss of Turkey Creek. But I think a more dangerous issue is the displacement of our culture.
stand
They should be able to stand on their own after that.
absorb call explain filter natural
I had to explain what wetlands are, ... We call them swamps. But wetlands are natural sponges, and we need them to absorb water, to filter pollutants.
fell kept
Someone kept me from drowning, when I fell into the water.
decided took
I decided I had to do something about it, ... It took from 1999 to 2003 to get that eyesore removed.
goes hundred percent
One hundred percent of that goes right back out. We're all volunteers.
apartment building peace people rest stop wrong
How can those people rest in peace with an apartment building over them? What is wrong with this city? Somebody?s got to stop these fools.
bad class communication race
Class and race play a big part in it and it's bad communication on the part of the bureaucracy also.
beaches cane churches creek crowd inside knew oftentimes people pick poles pools turkey until waited walked walking
When I was a girl, all we knew was this neighborhood, ... The beaches were ?whites only.? So Turkey Creek is where we went to fish, pick blackberries, recreate. Oftentimes you could see old people walking down to Turkey Creek with their cane poles in their hands. Churches had no pools inside for baptisms then?we all walked down to the creek and waited until the crowd got there.